Re^4: Perl and Mysql Queries

[hippo]

And then there is the one massive distinction: one of these is owned, controlled and sold by Oracle and the other isn't and almost certainly never will be.

We've been using MariaDB (and DBD::MariaDB) for almost 10 years now. It has been a bit ahead of MySQL in a few areas of interest to us but the really important part is that it is properly open source and therefore isn't going away (or being restricted or whatever) at the whim of a notorious corporation.